Oftentimes they can use a bot to mimic a human being and interact with potential targets.

Security expert and blogger Graham Cluley provides us with an example that has been modified from a common email scam dating back to at least 2009.

To prevent this from happening, it is important to understand what the most common types of social media scams consist of and what platforms they tend to target.

We begin with a guide on five common Twitter scams.

) Jerome Segura, a senior security researcher at Malwarebytes, does not recall of ever hearing about 419 scams on Twitter.

However, he does have a solution for the social networking site.

“I think Twitter could tackle some of the spam issues, whether it is via DMs or fake accounts, by looking into the account creation process and how to detect fraudulent sign ups,” he told Motherboard in an interview.

“Contrary to other social networking sites, it is trivial to create a Twitter account in a few seconds with a throwaway email address and start spamming right away.” While comparatively less common than the other types of scams explained above, worms still pose a serious threat to Twitter users.

These messages in essence send users to fake login pages that phish for Twitter users’ credentials.

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published an article offering advice on how users can securely navigate the world of social networking.

Some bots are in the pay-for-follower business, which accounts for another Twitter scam entirely.

We have all seen profiles that are dedicated to delivering thousands of Twitter followers for a fee.

Some schoolgirls (not pictured) are picked from classrooms to join the so-called 'Pleasure Squad' that serves the country's elite Kim Jong-il's personal 'pleasure troupe' were given ,000 pay-offs upon his death as compensation because most were taken out of school and moved from their hometowns without the consent of their parents, who were no doubt terrified at what could happen to them if they resisted.

This letter is being sent to kids for work, but it isn’t for work, it is to get the girls down to this place and drug them and use them for sex trafficking. And when I showed it to her she told me she had seen this letter online and what it was really about. This group has been drugging girls that show up for the interview and kidnapping them to be used in sex trafficing. As with the earlier text-in-a-tweet, users indeed shared these warnings.